Software · PDF: read, create, edit
Hisui PDF
Free, open-source desktop PDF editor: merge, split, annotate, redact, OCR and sign.
- Completely free
- Windows
- Open source
- No account
Overview
Hisui PDF is a PDF editor, available on Windows.
Features described in its Winget manifest and in its GitHub repository: PDF merging and text recognition (OCR).
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
- “Free, open-source desktop PDF editor: merge, split, annotate, redact, OCR and sign.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
- “Free, open-source desktop PDF editor: merge, split, annotate, redact, OCR and sign.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
- “Free, open-source desktop PDF editor: merge, split, annotate, redact, OCR and sign.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
At a glance
Hisui PDF is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.
Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.
Strengths
- Open source code
- No account needed
- Commercial use allowed
Sources and checks
- Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
- Facts collected from LicitPro automatic classification () —
- Last technical check: 8 November 2026
- Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)
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